* Marcin Roszkowski is assistant professor at the Institute of Information Science and Book Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, a major academic centre for library studies in Poland. He holds a Master degree in Library & Information Science from the Jagiellonian University (Poland). His thesis topic was about the concept of relevance in information retrieval. He holds a Ph.D. from the Silesia University (Poland) on using indexing language as a tool for information access and organization in networked environment. He is currently focusing his research and teaching on formal models of bibliographic universe under the perspective of the Semantic Web technologies. This includes bibliographic ontologies, metadata standards, controlled vocabularies and Library Linked Data. He is currently conducting his research on knowledge organization systems (KOSs), especially taxonomies, folksonomies with a special focus on Wikipedia content.

** Sally Chambers is Digital Humanities Research Coordinator at Ghent University, where she coordinates the day-to-day activities of the GhentCentre for Digital Humanities and Belgian participation in DARIAH, theDigital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. Sally is Programme Committee Chair for the DH Benelux 2016 conference, which will take place on 9 - 10 June 2016 in the City-of-Science-Belval, Luxembourg. From 2011-2015, Sally was Secretary-General for DARIAHEU, based in the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Germany. Before joining DARIAH-EU, Sally worked for The European Library, focusing on interoperability, metadata and technical project coordination. Sally initially started working in libraries in the mid-1990s, where she coordinated a digital enquiry service for UK public libraries and the development of an online library for distance learning students at the University of London. She has a first degree in Literature with Psychology and postgraduate qualifications in Cultural Studies and Information Services Management. She is the editor of Catalogue 2.0: the future of the library catalogue, which was published in July 2013 and has recently been commissioned by Facet Publishing to edit a book series on Digital Humanities and Li braries. Sally is convinced that libraries have a key role to play in the digital humanities and is dedicated to understanding this role and encouraging libraries to rise to the challenge.

*José Augusto Chaves Guimarães is Bachelor in Library Science and in Law, and holds a Master degree in Comunication Science (1989) and a PhD Degree in Information Science by University of São Paulo (Brazil) as well as a post-doctorate degree by University Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). He has been working at the Informaiton Science Departament of São Paulo State University since 1885 where he acts as Professor. He is a researcher of Brazilian Science and Technology Research Coundil (CNPq), and is the actual President of ISKO-Brazil as well as a member of the Executive Board of ISKO. His research areas are: Epistemology of Knowledge Orgaznaiton, Cultural and ethical aspects of Knowledge Oragzanaiton, Law Documentation and Diplomatics

*Joseph T. Tennis is an Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Affairs at the Information School of the University of Washington, Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, and a member of the Textual Studies faculty at UW. He is the President of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (20142018). He is the Director of the Governing Board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (2016). He is an Associate Member of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at The University of British Columbia. He has been an occasional visiting scholar at the State University of São Paulo since 2009. He is Managing Editor for Advances in Classification Research Online, and on the editorial board for Library Quarterly (USA), Knowledge Organization (Germany), Scire (Spain), Informatio (Uruguay), and Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej (Poland). He is also a member of the Dublin Core Usage Board and Oversight Committee (an international standards body that works toward the implementation and maintenance of interoperable metadata). He has been active in the InterPARES research project (working on digital records preservation) since 2005, and currently serves as an advisor and researcher on metadata issues. His research has been funded by Microsoft, IMLS, and SSHRC. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies. He received his M.L.S. and an Sp.L.I.S. in Book History from Indiana University, and the Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington. He works in classification theory, the ethics and aesthetics of information organization labor, the versioning of classification schemes and thesauri, subject ontogeny, information provenance, authenticity metadata, and the comparative discursive analysis of metadata creation and evaluation, including archival metadata, both contemporary and historical. In 2013 he won the ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award, for "The Strange Case of Eugenics: A Subject’s Ontogeny in a Long-Lived Classification Scheme and the Question of Collocative Integrity. " (2012). In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(7): 1350-1359. To find out more about Joseph visit: http://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/jtennis.

*Shahid Rahmanis full professor for logic and epistemology at the University of Lille since 2001 (Sciences Humaines, Lettres et Arts, UMR 8163: STL). He gathered a Masters in Philosophy, Mathematics and Philology (ErlangenNürnberg), a PhD in philosophy and (on game-theoretical foundations for constructive logic and category theory), cognitive psychology and philology, and an Habilitation in Philosophy (both at Univ. Saarland –Germany)?. Promoted by the ministry of education to the level of Professeur de la classe exceptionnelle in Philosophy. Elected member (2011) of the Comité national français d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences associated to the Académie des Sciences.Director of the research MESHS-project ADA, that unifies 19-research laboratories in the Humanities and Social Sciences of Nord-Pas de Calais (France). The King's college edited a book in honour of his 50th birthday. He edits two book series in Springer (LEUS and LAR) and three more in College Publications. His main researches concern philosophy and history of logic and epistemology with special emphasis on game-theoretical approaches. He successfully adviced so far, 14 PHD students, most of them gathered academic propositions including assistants, associate and full professorships.

*Samuel TRAINOR is a British writer and literary translator who taught himself web authoring skills while working as a freelance technical translator providing multilingual web solutions. Since becoming an Associate Professor at the University of Lille, he has integrated these skills into a web-based dynamic translation interface for the retranslation of canonical poetic texts: the Synoptic Translation Project. As part of a broader study re-examining the concept of transparency in translation, this gives a practical example of a few of the key concepts of strategic and ethical layering in translation. He has previously translated the work of Frédéric Lordon and Gabriel Tarde, including The Two Elements of Sociology published by Routledge in early 2016, and has been involved in the translation of his own poetry. He is currently working on an English version of L'Image de l'Autre. Noirs, Juifs, Musulmans et Gitans dans l'imaginaire européen by Victor Stoichita for Reaktion Books.